Don DeLillo Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

  Don DeLillo

  Pain, Reality, Lightning

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

• We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

  Don DeLillo

  Independent, Intelligent, Reality

• The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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